Time-related changes in connexin mRNA abundance in the rat neocortex during postnatal development

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-125

  Prime, Graham ^a   Horn, Gabi ^a   Sutor, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin; Gap junction; mRNA; Neocortex; Postnatal development; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GAP JUNCTION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033977335     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00132-7     Document Type: Article

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